Maria Louisa Charlesworth

Typically for her class, the young Lucy Colquhoun was placed in the care of a nurse, whom she referred to as Mistress Aitken. She was educated at home by two German governesses, Fräulein Emma Lindemann

EL was educated mostly though not entirely at home while her father lived. She describes herself as a child as capable of occasional terrible tempers, being blind with wrath. A scene over being forced...

In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...

Her central characters, May and Elfie (of whom May is three years older), are her sister Amy Agnes and herself. Also highly important are their parents, Nurse, Cook or Cookie, and the elder brother and...

Religious Novels and the Christian Ideal laments that religious novels so seldom put forward truly admirable patterns of life, but instead encourage phariseeism and self-satisfaction. SV dissects with some disgust Ministering Children by Maria Louisa Charlesworth